r/HistoryMemes • • 2m ago

Niche "I had no plan.“

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r/HistoryMemes • • 31m ago

Jesus was Chinese.

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Historically, both white and black supremacists have attempted to claim Jesus as a reflection of their own racial identity to legitimize ideological dominance. White supremacist groups traditionally depicted Jesus as a Caucasian figure, using Europeanized imagery to reinforce doctrines of racial superiority and divine right. Conversely, black supremacist theology counters this by arguing that the biblical Jesus possessed African or 'burnt brass' features, rooted in his geographical and genealogical heritage. Both factions weaponize sacred history, projecting contemporary racial divisions onto a historical figure who transcended modern classifications. While historical consensus places Jesus as a first-century Middle Eastern Jewish man, these divergent appropriations reveal how deeply theology intertwines with cultural identity. Ultimately, both narratives risk reducing a universal spiritual teacher into a sectarian symbol of exclusion.


r/HistoryMemes • • 32m ago

Niche Mfw I'm in a destroying history competition and my opponent is the Bahamas

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r/HistoryMemes • • 1h ago

See Comment No thought more dangerous than "it hasnt screwed me over yet"

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r/HistoryMemes • • 2h ago

Niche One of the most exiting heads up in history. Current score's 4:4. Y'alls bets on who gets first to 5?

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"The existence of AI slop implies the existence of AI gem" - Napoleon circa 1811.
"The smirk of that "France wins in ww2" guy is one of these AI gems. I’m happy we got em in the end" - Cardinal Richelieu circa 1639


r/HistoryMemes • • 2h ago

And then 6,000 people were murdered.

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r/HistoryMemes • • 2h ago

I imagine after the Night of Long Knives moral was a complicated subject in the Nazi party

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r/HistoryMemes • • 3h ago

Niche Average Engels' comment about someone with a small African ancestry:

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Lafargue was on their side btw & they still talked about him this way.

He wasn't even significantly African; he was primarily white & Jewish.

Dude legit coulda passed as white these days and still got called the N-word🥀

Edit: some people are denying it so here's his letter:

Thanks to u/Khan-Khrome “

That's straight up one of his letters, and it's pretty clear he's using it in a derogatory manner by combining "N\*o" and "gorilla" to form "n\rillo", which continues in his other correspondence about Lafargue it seems.

""My dear Laura, My congratulations to Paul le candidat du Jardin des Plantes—et des animaux. Being, in his quality as a [N-word], a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he is undoubtedly the most appropriate representative of that district. Let us hope the animaux will have the best of it in this struggle against the bêtes." (Marx/Engels Collected Works. Vol. 48. Letters 1887-90. [Engels to Laura Lafargue in Paris. London, 26 April 1887]. pp. 52-54).

No man can be ahead of his time, all the time.

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r/HistoryMemes • • 4h ago

"Still bringing money for my people 4500 years later" -Khufu

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"See Pliny, they are better than any project your people ever did, so who is the fool now?" -Khufu


r/HistoryMemes • • 4h ago

The greatest cover of all time

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Context: In 1988, famous Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, otherwise known as IZ, called his studio at about 3 AM asking if he could record. They let him in and in a single take recorded his covers of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World. The room reportedly fell silent after he finished


r/HistoryMemes • • 4h ago

Marx was beast [repost]

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He was a competitive ranked racist anti-semite despite being Jewish himself😭

In a letter to Friedrich Engels dated July 30, 1862, Marx wrote:

"The Jewish [N-word] Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation."

NOTE: Original post was doing numbers until it was removed due to “excessive racism”.

I removed the censored N-words completely. But it's just so funny people can't even post what he said or did because it was excessively racist and batsh!t insane.


r/HistoryMemes • • 4h ago

CHOCOLATE?! CHOCOLATE?

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r/HistoryMemes • • 5h ago

Perhaps he was buried alive.

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Context=A new theory suggests he was only paralyzed when he was declared dead.Katherine Hall of the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand, Alexander’s symptoms resembled a case of a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves, leading to eventual paralysis. The most disturbing part of Hall’s theory is that Alexander probably was probably still alive when he was declared dead.


r/HistoryMemes • • 5h ago

Niche What a weird joke to make (cw: racism obviously)

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Jeff Sessions is a former senator and attorney from Alabama who was also Trump’s attorney general. He’s also had a history of racism controversies. One was in 1986 when he was nominated by Reagan to be the US district judge of the southern district of Alabama. Controversy ultimately kept him from getting the position as even Coretta Scott King opposed the nomination. The senate judiciary committee had hearings where four lawyers testified Sessions had made racist remarks. One of the stranger ones was a joke he made about how he thought the KKK was “OK until I found out they smoked pot”. For the record Sessions did apologize and other people who worked with him like Barry Kowalski and Albert Glenn knew that he was joking. But I don’t know, that’s a weird thing to joke about. He’s not helping the stereotypes about white Alabamans


r/HistoryMemes • • 5h ago

See Comment The Serbs immediately regretted their decision when the French Marines fixed bayonets

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r/HistoryMemes • • 6h ago

Niche They agreed on a no first use policy

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r/HistoryMemes • • 6h ago

Last Al-Andalus Sultan vs last Eastern Roman Emperor

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Both were beautiful civilizations that shaped the Middle Ages, and this post isn't meant to disrespect the history of Al-Andalus, Rather it is meant to highlight the contrast between their final rulers.

Muhammad XI better known as Boabdil, he surrendered Granada to the combined forces of Castile and Aragon in an effort to spare his life and secure terms for the city's surrender to also spare the lives of his city, Constantine XI Palaiologos on the other hand, he refused to surrender Constantinople when the Ottomans besieged the city, and when the Ottomans entered the city he took up his sword and he fought alongside his men, choosing to face death on the battlefield rather than flee.


r/HistoryMemes • • 6h ago

Mythology More wives than there are nations on the Earth

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Context: King Solomon is described as having 700 wives and 300 concubines, who led him to stray from the Lord his God and into foreign worship


r/HistoryMemes • • 7h ago

These people just can’t win

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r/HistoryMemes • • 7h ago

The greatest royal guards

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Context: To help fight the usurper Bardas Phokas the Younger, Emperor Basil II made a pact with Prince Vladamir the Great of the Kievan Rus’ where he promised his sister’s hand in marriage and the Rus would provide 6,000 warriors and would convert to Christianity.

With these forces Basil crushed the forces of Bardas, who died not long after the defeat.

The Rus warriors would form the legendary Varangian Guard, the royal protectors of the Eastern Roman Emperors


r/HistoryMemes • • 8h ago

See Comment Always Remember to show Affection to your Tummy Wife

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r/HistoryMemes • • 9h ago

See Comment When you get mogged by your Wife's Brother

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r/HistoryMemes • • 9h ago

The coolest reason to discover new lands

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Context: Kupe the Navigator was a legendary Polynesian explorer credited with the discovery of New Zealand.

He discovered the Island while in pursuit of Te Wheke-a-Muturangi, a Giant Octopus that was attacking local fishermen. He traveled thousands of miles before killing the creature in the Cook Strait, later taking time to explore the Islands and name certain areas


r/HistoryMemes • • 10h ago

What if Bismarck was resurrected and was immediately forced to watch a documentary covering all events from 1914-1945? What would his reactions throughout the show be?

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r/HistoryMemes • • 10h ago

The Middle East in 1948 when you tell them there’s a Jewish country

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